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		Introduction Review cards Compose cards Alphabets & fonts Installation Language Database Release dates Software piracy Miscellanea				This section is about Decks of cards ( Lektionen) you can "compose" (i.e. edit).  Contents When I press the Enter key, VTrain shows the next card. How do I enter a new line? How do I edit the "How do you say in [...]" message? How do I import from Microsoft Excel? How do I import from Microsoft Word? The images in a Microsoft Word document won't import. How do I export files to Microsoft Excel? How do I export to Microsoft Word in table format? I have used the remark format to simulate a 3rd card side in VTrain. How do I convert such cards into two different files? I cannot attach any sound files to certain cards. When I export a Deck of cards, the links to attached sound files are not exported. How do I split a large wave file into several wave files? How do I create a Deck of cards out of a list of sound files? How do I create a Deck of cards out of a list of sound files in two languages? How do I create a Deck of cards out of a list of sound files and a list of words? How do I apply a different color to the remarks?
		When I press the Enter key, VTrain shows the next card. How do I enter a new line?				In VTrain 4.5, data were entered by pressing Ctrl+Enter. This applied to the Compose mode as well as to the Review mode. In VTrain 5.0, data are entered simply by pressing the Enter key. To enter a linefeed, simply use Ctrl+Enter or Shift+Enter. Of course, this setting can be reversed in VTrain 5.0 from the Tools menu.
		How do I edit the "How do you say in [...]" message?				Every Deck of cards comes with two Question Prompts ( Lektionsfragen, "Wie sagt man auf [...]"). These Question Prompts are displayed during the Review sessions ( Abfrage). To edit the Question Prompts, you can do the following:   1. Open a Compose window ( Eingabefenster) either by pressing Ctrl+H or via File menu | Open.   2. Choose Compose menu | Properties of this deck ( Menü Lektion | Lektionseigenschaften).   3. Type in whatever you want. If you do not want to see any Question Prompt in the Review mode, type in a blank space as a Question Prompt.
		How do I import from Microsoft Excel?				You can import a 2-column table from Microsoft Excel or Word into VTrain in a few easy steps. First of all, check if the document contains carriage returns (that is, more than one line) in the middle of a "card" (that is, a word pair). If it does not, you are lucky. Simply follow the procedure outlined below in "How do I import from Microsoft Word". Otherwise, you will need to do the following:   1. Tell VTrain which delimiters you are going to use. You can do so from File menu | Import/export options... | Delimiters. Default settings are "=" and "|". We recommend you to keep these settings.   2. Backup your Excel document (for example, by saving it under a new name).   3. Open your Excel document (Excel can open both CSV and XLS files). Make sure the table is made of two columns only. If it contains more columns, you will need to delete them. Example: the horse el caballo the house la casa   4. Insert a new column after the first one and another column after the last one (select a column and go to the Insert menu): the horse el caballo the house la casa   5. Write a "=" character on top of the second column and press the Enter key: the horse = el caballo the house la casa   6. Now let us fill the rest of the second column with "=" characters. To do that, click on the first cell of the second column and press Ctrl+C (Copy) on your keyboard: the horse = el caballo the house la casa Then, select the whole column: the horse  = el caballo the house la casa And, finally, press Ctrl+V (Paste) on your keyboard: the horse  = el caballo the house  = la casa   7. Now, apply the same procedure to fill the last column, in order to fill it with "|" chacacters: the horse = el caballo  | the house = la casa  |   8. Now, you have two options: If the text is formatted (such as bold format or italics), you can copy the whole text into the clipboard (Edit menu | Select all and then Edit menu | Copy), open Microsoft Word, paste it there and follow the last steps of the procedure described in How do I import from Microsoft Word?. If, on the contrary, the document is plain text, go to the next step.   7. Finally, you have two options: Save the document from Excel as a TXT (plain text) file, start VTrain, and import the file (File menu | Import..., choose TXT as filetype). Copy the whole table in Excel, launch VTrain, create a new Deck of cards, display the List window for it (Ctrl+L) and paste the table into it.   This procedure can be awkward if you need to do it often. For this reason, we plan to implement import/export in Excel format. If you need this feature, please register and request it!
		How do I import from Microsoft Word?				You can prepare a wordlist in Microsoft Word for import into VTrain in a few easy steps. First of all, check if the document contains carriage returns (that is, more than one line) in the middle of a "card" (that is, a word pair). If it does not, you can simply do the following:   1. Tell VTrain which delimiters you are going to use. You can do so from File menu | Import/export options... | Delimiters. Default settings are "=" and "|". Please change them to ASCII numbers 9 and 10, that is, to "tabulation" and "carriage return".   2. Backup your document (for example, by saving it under a new name).   3. Open your document. If the wordlist is not in table format, you will need to convert it into a table (Table menu | Convert table to text..., choose Separate text at paragraphs).If it contains more than 2 columns, you will need to delete them. Example: the horse el caballo the house la casa   4. Now, select both columns anc copy them to the clipboard.   5. Open VTrain, create a new Deck (File menu | New), open a List window for it (press Ctrl+L) and paste the contents of the clipboard there.   6. If you want to, you can reset the default settings of the Import dialog box. On the contrary, if your document contains any carriage returns, you have to do the following:   1. Tell VTrain which delimiters you are going to use. You can do so from File menu | Import/export options... | Delimiters. Default settings are "=" and "|". We recommend you to keep these settings.   2. Backup your document (for example, by saving it under a new name).   3. Open your document. If the wordlist is not in table format, you will need to convert it into a table (Table menu | Convert table to text..., choose Separate text at paragraphs).If it contains more than 2 columns, you will need to delete them. Example: the horse el caballo the house la casa   4. Insert a new column after the first one and another column after the last one (Table menu): the horse el caballo the house la casa   5. Write a "=" character on top of the second column: the horse = el caballo the house la casa   6. Now let us fill the rest of the second column with "=" characters. To do that, select the "=" character in the first cell of the second column and press Ctrl+C (Copy) on your keyboard: the horse = el caballo the house la casa Then, select the whole column: the horse  = el caballo the house la casa And, finally, press Ctrl+V (Paste) on your keyboard: the horse  = el caballo the house  = la casa   7. Now, apply the same procedure to fill the last column, in order to fill it with "|" chacacters: the horse = el caballo  | the house = la casa  |   8. Convert the table back to text (Table menu | Convert table to text...).   9. Save your document, making sure you choose RTF as filetype.   10. Start VTrain and import the file (File menu | Import..., choose RTF as filetype).
		The images in a Microsoft Word document won't import.				If the document contains images but they do not appear in the imported VTrain Deck of cards, make sure that the option File menu | Import/export options... | Trim white space characters is not checked.
		How do I export files to Microsoft Excel?				If you edit your VTrain vocabulary (*.vok) files in an external editor, you can take advantage of Search & Replace procedures, for example. Files with text format If your VTrain files contain boldface or italics format, follow the instructions to export to Word, then copy and paste the resulting table from Word to Excel. Files with no text format On the other hand, if your VTrain files are plain text, you can export them to Excel as follows:   1. Tell VTrain which delimiters you are going to use. You can do so from File menu | Import/export options... | Delimiters. Default settings are "=" and "|". Please change them to tabulation character (ASCII number 9) and carriage return (ASCII number 13).   2. In VTrain, export the VTrain Deck of cards (*.vok document) from File menu | Export. Make sure you choose TXT (plain text) as file type. By the way, the resulting file will look like this: Text1     Text2 Text3     Text4 This is called a CSV file delimited by tabs (tabulation characters).   3. Start Excel and choose File menu | Open. Choose Use the default settings and import the file into Excel. The result is an Excel table: Text1 Text2 Text3 Text4   Unfortunately, when importing CSV files, Excel creates a new row at every carriage return character (line break), so if your VTrain cards contain multiple lines of text, the procedure listed above will not lead to the results expected. For this reason, we plan to add export as an Excel table to VTrain. If you need this feature, please register and request it!
		How do I export files to Microsoft Word in table format?				If you edit your VTrain vocabulary (*.vok) files in an external editor, you can take advantage of Search & Replace procedures, for example. Word supports rich text format, so it is a good choice. Now, if you would like to edit your cards in Word more comfortably, you can convert the document into a table. You can do this as follows:   1. Tell VTrain which delimiters you are going to use. You can do so from File menu | Import/export options... | Delimiters. Default settings are "=" and "|". We recommend you to keep these settings.   2. In VTrain, export the Deck of cards (*.vok document) from File menu | Export. Make sure you choose RTF (Rich Text) as file type.   3. Open the file you have exported in Microsoft Word. You will get something like this: Text1=Text2| Text3=Text4|   4. In Word, convert the text into a table (Table menu | Convert text to table...), but telling Word to use "=" as separator between the columns. The result is a table like this: Text1 Text2| Text3 Text4|   Unfortunately, when converting text to table, Word creates a new row at every carriage return character (line break), so if your VTrain cards contain multiple lines of text, the procedure listed above will not lead to the results expected. For this reason, we plan to add export as a Word table to VTrain. If you need this feature, please register and request it!
		I have used the remark format to simulate a 3rd card side in VTrain. How do I convert such cards into two different files?				If you are learning Japanese or Chinese, you need to learn each character along with its transcription and its translation into English. The following card is an example of using a VTrain /*remark*/ for this purpose: (See the Help file shipped with the program for more on "Remarks".) Our goal is to convert such cards into two separate lists: This is very easy to achieve:   1. Make a backup copy of the original document.   2. In VTrain, export the Deck of cards (*.vok document) as a RTF (Rich Text) file from File menu | Export.   3. Open the file you have exported in Microsoft Word.   4. In Word, use the Replace facility to replace all "=" characters with "/".   5. In Word, convert the text into a table (Table menu | Convert text to table...), but telling Word to use "/" as separator between the columns.   6. Now you have a 3-column table. Use the Replace facility in Word to eliminate the "*" characters, and the entries of the table will look like this:   7. Copy and paste the table into a new Word document.   8. In the new document, delete one of the columns of the table, and save it in RTF format.   9. Finally, import the file back into VTrain. To do this, you can either choose File menu | Import... or copy and paste the table into a List window in VTrain.   This procedure is awkward, and splitting the original hinders both edition and lookup of the contents. For this reason, we plan to add support for flashcards with more than two sides. If you need this feature, please register and request it!
		I cannot attach any sound files to certain cards.				In the old version VTrain 4.5, the following happened: The Record and the Browse button of the Review mode failed whenever you tried to attach a sound file to a card ( eine Tondatei anhängen), when there was one of the following characters on the card: a "/" character, a Carriage Return or a Line Feed character (the kind of invisible character that you input when you press the "Enter" key). The only workaround for this in VTrain 4.5 was to attach the sound file to the card before writing anything on it. This has been fixed in VTrain 5.0.
		When I export a Deck of cards, the links to attached sound files are not exported.				You need to check the corresponding option in the File | Import/export options dialog box.
		How do I split a large wave file into several wave files?				You can try one of the following programs: CD Wave by (Shareware, US$15) Splitting. Wav support. Simple, comfortable interface. MP3 Splitter & Joiner by EZ Magic (Shareware, US$19.95) Splitting and joining. Wav and mp3 support. Silence detection. Silence insertion. Visual MP3 Splitter & Joiner by ManiacTools (Shareware, US$29.95) Splitting and joining. Wav and mp3 support. Silence detection.
		How do I create a Deck of cards out of a list of sound files?				Let us suppose that you have a collection of wave files in a folder on your hard disk and wish to create a VTrain Deck of cards from it. The wave files are written in only one language, so the Backs of the resulting cards will be empty at first. This can be done as follows:   1. Create a list of the wave files, and store it as a plain text (TXT) file. There are many ways to do this. For example, you can use Print Folder (Freeware), or you can save a playlist from WinAmp (Freeware).   2. Open the list in Microsoft Word.   3. Depending on which program you used to create the list, you may need to remove some excess blanks from it. If necessary, start the Replace facility (Edit menu) and replace all blanks with empty strings.   4. Use the Replace facility (Edit menu) to enclose each line in swung brackets and add VTrain's Import/Export delimiters. The result you want to achieve is this: {mywavefile.wav}=| This is how: Type the following string into the Find what edit control of the Find and Replace dialog: ^p ...and the following into the Replace with edit control: }=|^p{ Finally, maybe you have to add a swung bracket to the first line and remove it from the last.   5. Save the resulting file.   6. In VTrain, go to File menu | Import/export options and make sure that the option "Include links to attached sounds" is checked. Then, go to File menu | Import and import the file you saved before.   7. The result is a Deck of cards without any text on them, but with your wave files linked to the Fronts of the cards as "sound attachments". Save this file into the folder that contains the sound files.   8. Browse the Deck of cards you have just imported and write whatever you wish on the cards.
		How do I create a Deck of cards out of a list of sound files in two languages?				Let us suppose that you have a collection of wave files in a folder on your hard disk and wish to create a